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Alien Invasion in My Backyard / Deceptive Desserts

Issue No. 119

FROM SLOBBERY ROBOTS AND ALIENS WITH BRIEFCASES TO DIDGERIDOO LESSONS

Alien Invasion in My Backyard: An EMU Club Adventure

by Ruben Bolling

Andrews McMeel Publishing

2015, 112 pages, 5.3 x 8 x 0.4 inches

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TV will tell you the truth is out there. Decades ago folks would warn you to “Keep watching the skies!” But kids know the truth: The mysteries aren’t out there, they’re right here. They are in every bump from the attic, that weird locked door in the basement, and, especially, the often mystifying backyard. Kids know that’s where the real mysteries lie, and we’re all lucky that Ruben Bolling knows it, too.

Alien Invasion in my Backyard, the first in the EMU Club series, is a fun and ridiculous (in just the right way) story of the creation of the Exploration Mystery Unbelievable Club.…